Angry Rant

As part of my never-ending quest to expose how little the media (other than the Bay Area News Group, of course) knows about video games, I present this quote from the New York Daily News:

Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman was spotted Wednesday in California shopping for video games and was captured on film checking out the Nintendo Wii and its accessories. The Wii retails for about $250. The controllers she was eye cost about $40. If she buys one for all 14 kids, that will addup to about $560.

Let’s analyze this with my second bulleted list of the day..

The Wii can use up to four controllers at a time. What exactly would the point be of buying more than that? I mean, maybe someone with more money than brains will get each kid their own, but who automatically assumes that’s going to happen?

Ignoring that for a moment, even if she was buying one controller per kid, eight of the 14 were born this month. Several barely weigh more than the controller. And yet in an effort to inflate the total amount she’s spending they assume she’s buying it for them.

So let’s factor all that out and say she’s buying a Wii, four remotes and two games. Total cost of about $500, give or take. If you ask me that’s a very reasonable investment considering that she has to amuse six kids while she takes care of eight newborn babies. If anything she’s being fiscally responsible about it, the Wii is a very family-friendly console and a PS3 with the same games and accessories would cost around $700.

Of course I’m missing the point. The real source of outrage is that she’s spending money on video games of all things. For shame! She might as well buy crack!